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Magen David Adom | Empowering Communities

To Respond To Emergencies

Dear Friends, The innovative concept entails training Community volunteers are recruited to take part in the project —
This month I want to Emergency Response Teams (CERT) and equipping them medical professionals as well as people with no previous
share with you an article with first-aid supplies that are stored in advance within medical background. Magen David Adom offers a six-
reposted from Haaretz in each community. These supplies are easily accessible hour basic course for lay volunteers who want to be part
their annual The Power of during emergencies, so that the local response team will of their local Community Emergency Response Team.
Giving issue. be able to initially provide vital care without having to The course trains them to provide rudimentary treatment
On October 7, be dependent on external help. to trauma victims, including how to apply bandages and
most roads leading to Ultimately, MDA plans to establish 1,000 CERTs all tourniquets and how to administer CPR. They also learn
communities under attack over Israel, with a special emphasis on communities in how to call for help and how to coordinate the evacuation
were blocked, so that the most volatile areas, such as along the northern border, of the wounded to safer locations for further treatment.
some medical teams were near the Gaza Strip, in Judea and Samaria, and close to Last year, Magen David Adom’s Training Department
unable to reach wounded other borders. taught basic first-aid skills and emergency care procedures
Israelis. Magen David Adom lost no time in launching Recruiting volunteers to around 350,000 people all over Israel. Now, through the
an innovative initiative aimed at ensuring that never Several hundred CERTs have already become
again would terror victims have to wait for life-saving operational in the last few months. In each community, Magen David Adom on page 15
emergency care.

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were wounded proved to be extremely challenging. First
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Resources within the community
Immediately following October 7th, MDA decided
to fast-track a project that had previously been on the
back burner: establishing community-based emergency
response teams throughout Israel capable of treating
local victims of terror attacks when it isn’t possible to
evacuate them to hospitals in a timely manner. Named
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of professional first responders is delayed, life-saving Operating as
treatments can be administered on location.

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Credit: Magen David Adom